Java Server Pages Training
Friday 23rd Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 10:27AM
I've been on a training course for the past 2 days at Remarc Technologies on JSP. I've not touched the stuff since we covered it in uni and I hated it then.
We covered all the basics and covered form handling and database connectivity before moving over to Java programming to give us a better understanding of using objects and classes.
Anyway, I breezed through it and I've got a better understanding of it now, just need to put it into practice at work now. Need to book myself onto the second part of the course next.
Urgh, I'm Ill
Tuesday 20th Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 10:32PM
Oh dear, I felt so ill last night I had to go to bed before 9pm. My head was pounding and I felt like I was going to throw up. Seem's like I've caught something from the soup of illness that's going around work at the moment.
Nothing much to report on at the moment, things are pretty quiet, just thought I'd check in. I've got JSP training on Thursday, Friday, then off to catch Man Utd v Blackburn on Saturday.
Had a couple of interesting comments on the Speed Test recently, seems like they are coming from a bunch of pissed off Russians. Crazy Tetris playing freaks.
Margins Of Misery
Wednesday 7th Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 06:15PM
When I was wrote the previous post last night I added a new style for the CSS I included, however I forgot to check it out in IE and it ended up breaking the design! Since I usually do all my stuff with Firefox I never checked out IE to see if everything was ok.
Anyway, this is a good time to post a browser related link, check out Skyzyx.com which has stand alone versions of IE3 to 6 available to download. Very handy tools indeed for testing backwards compatibility of your pages.
Nice Little CSS Hack
Tuesday 6th Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 08:07PM
I was working on getting the site compatible with IE5+ the other night, I noticed that every version seemed fine except IE5. The menu to the left was spaced out quite a bit, producing a rather ugly mess.
When I added a filter to try and amend the problem with IE5 I ended up upsetting IE5.5. In the end I came up with the following bit of code, all this recent reading on CSS has finally paid off.
#nav ul li {
margin: 0;
padding: 5px 0;
font-weight: bold;
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: 15px 50%;
line-height: 16px; /* height for IE5 */
line-height/**/: 28px; /* height for IE5.5+ */
} html>body #nav ul li {
padding: 0;
line-height: 38px; /* height for others */
}
As you can see I had to apply 3 different filters to accommodate for the dodgy line-height property. Both IE5 & 5.5 needed different heights, I then used the child selector to filter out all IE browsers and supply a line-height of 38px to all CSS compliant browsers. Job's a good'un, should work fine and dandy now.
Xbox 360 Preordered
Monday 5th Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 06:56PM
I preordered my Xbox 360 Premium pack today, along with Project Gotham Racing 3, Ghost Recon 3 and Perfect Dark - Zero from GAME. Although I've just been told by my brother that PGR3 might not be available on launch day.
Just have to wait till the suspected launch date now, around 25th November, planning on booking a week off work and becoming a social hermit while I hammer the thing to death.
Wanted: User Feedback
Sunday 4th Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 10:19PM
Calling all Web designers, developers and general readers of this site. As you may or may not know I've recently redesigned this site using a full CSS layout.
I'm looking for constructive feedback from anyone kind enough to give it, on what they think to the design, especially on aspects such as usability, functionality, browser compatibility.
Additionally, I've uploaded a screenshot (160Kb) of what I see on my browser (Firefox and IE 6 on Win XP) can you contact me if your display appears different from the screenshot, so I can investigate the problem.
Great Weather This Weekend
Sunday 4th Sep 2005 - Posted By: Ste Riley at 09:49PM
Well we've had some decent weather this weekend, its been around the mid 20's which aint to bad at all to say its September now. Nothing to special to report on this weekend... so I'll just leave a nice video of this face plant.
Nearly at the end of reading the The Zen of CSS Design well worth a read if your into that sort of thing.
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